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Homer the Theologian

Lamberton, Robert

1989,1986

Overview

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this tradition of reading was to create new demands on subsequent epic and thereby alter permanently the nature of European epic. The Neoplatonist reading was to be decisive in the birth of allegorical epic in late antiquity and forms the background for the next major extension of the epic tradition found in Dante.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: achilles / Allegory / Allegory and Symbolism / Ancient & Classical / ancient philosophy / bards / calchas / classicism / classics / dante / divine inspiration / divinity / epic / Epic poetry / Epic poetry -- History and criticism / epic tradition / Ethics / form / genre / gods and goddesses / greco roman studies / greek / hero / HISTORY / Ancient / General / History and criticism / Homer / Homer -- Religion / Homer -- Symbolism / homeric poems / iliad / invocation / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical / LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory / literary theory / literature / myth / mythology / Neoplatonism / nonfiction / odyssey / oral tradition / platonic tradition / platonism / poetic form / prophecy / Religion / Religion and ethics / Religion in literature / religious experience / revelation / semiotics theory / supernatural / Symbolism / theoclymenus / tiresias / trojan war
• ISBN: 9780520066076, 0520066073, 0520054377, 9780520054370, 9780520909205, 0520909208